 King James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous birth, As if...  Conrad Blessington; a tale by a lady - Page 36by Conrad Blessington (fict.name.) - 1833 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1898 - 1474 pages
...INKERMANN. NOVEMBER 5, 18M. ' Scarce could they hear or see their foes, Until at weapon point they close. They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway...men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air.' — SCOTT. INKERMANN is emphatically ' a soldier's battle.' T i the private counted for everything... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 564 pages
...foes, Until at weapon point they close. — They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there,...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness naught descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | Harry Cassell Davis, John Cloyse Bridgman - Readers - 1899 - 390 pages
...times a stifled hum, Told England, from his mountain-throne, King James did rushing come. — ***** They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway,...portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. ***** Wide raged the battle on the plain... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 434 pages
...foes, Until at weapon point they close. — They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there,...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness naught descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 458 pages
...foes, Until at weapon point they close. — They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there,...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness naught descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1899 - 370 pages
...rushing come. — Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. — They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway,...a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, 30 As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ; O life and death were in the shout, Recoil... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1899 - 360 pages
...in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, so Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ; O life and death were in the shout, Eecoil and rally, charge and rout, 33 And triumph and despair.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 782 pages
...rushing come — Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. — 1 They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway,...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ; * 0 life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 420 pages
...rushing come. — Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. — l They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway,...if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air;2 0 life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And trinmph and despair.... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1900 - 508 pages
...of Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field: — '- They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there,...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air, And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea mew." The Lady of the Lake, an extremely... | |
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